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Now we're getting somewhere. Sent from my iPad On Mar 31, 2014, at 6:29 PM, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote: > > On 31 Mar 2014, at 20:00, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote: > >> Hi Folks, >> >> Long ago Michael Kay said something like this: >> >> Data is primary. >> > > I've no idea what the context was, but I think there are probably two ways I would expand the statement: > > (a) Data lasts longer than programs and has more value. Therefore don't lock your data into proprietary formats that won't survive the software used to create them. > > (b) In designing a software system, the core piece of design that you need to get right is the data model. > >
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